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[DWAnderson]

Many streaming media stations work fine, but I also consistently get the following errors:

1. When attempting to play certain streaming web media, e.g. WOLF FM (128k), I will also get the "Warning" dialog saying "Media Center encountered errors while trying to play the last several files. Make sure that the path in the Media Jukebox library points to the right location."—even though only one unsuccessful attempt was made and the error message is inapplicable to Web Media.

2. Attempting to play other streaming web media, e.g. BBC Radio 1, EUROPA PLUS the first time errors out producing a "JRR Reader" dialog that says "Failed to connect to a server. Reason: Object not found." Followed by a "Warning" dialog that says "Please select files to play."

3. Attempting to play other streaming web media, e.g. NDR 2 pops up the full screen interface when playing. Reconnecting from the main screen by hitting play does not cause this problem.

Is anyone not experiencing similar problems with these or other stations?

[KingSparta]

i had a problem with BBC, but that was due to the BBC stream was not working at that time. i deleted it and started using

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/live_news.ram

[DWAnderson]

I should clarify that my issues don't necessarily relate to the substance of not being able to connect to different stations. I know that streaming media can be kind of flaky.

Rather, I think that the terrible error messages and response of MC (including crashes on some occassions) to an inability to connect DO rise to the level of bugs.

If a simple unable to connect message would pop up each time instead of the behavior I described, I don't think these issues would be bugs anymore.